November 21, 2009
This week's harvest:
kale
sweet potatoes
butternut squash
garlic
onions
carrots
turnips w/greens (these turnips are best for cooking)
daikon radish - free choice
This week's farm news:
Well folks, today wraps up this year's fall share! We thank all of you so much for your ongoing support! We are planning to bring vegetables to Nashville the 5th and 12th of December also. (We haven't decided about Saturday the 19th yet.) If you know that you would like a basket either (or both!) of those days, you can let us know by email (if you didn't sign the list). Small baskets will be $20 and mediums will be $35. We would be honored to continue feeding you & your families our farm-fresh goodies throughout the winter!
Life on the farm is really beginning to slow down now. We can see the seasons moving from fall to winter. Very few leaves remain on the trees now. We are spending much more time tending & stoking fires & eating lots of sweet potatoes hot from the wood cookstove! The shorter days are beginning to limit the amount of outdoor project time we have each day -- just in time for the surge of seed catalogs that are arriving in our mailbox daily... Time for sitting back with a hot cup of tea & dreaming about the ripe, juicy tomatoes of summer. There's so much to be thankful for!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Housing?
I thought I'd post the letter we received with our veggies last week from the amazing interns Evan and Laura, for those folks who may have missed it. If you're interested in making contact, please leave a comment for me and I'll give you their information. Thanks!
Hello Dear Shareholders,
Our season-long internship with the wonderful Smith family is coming to a close. We leave with calloused hands, grateful hearts, bellies full of delicious veggies, and minds brimming with new knowledge of fertile land and healthy animals. Although we are sad to leave our beautiful home, we look forward to putting our skills to use back in Music City, USA.
We are reaching out to the good people of the Bugtussle Farm Community as we search for a new home in the city. We would love to find a place where we could garden and live in a healthy, simple way. If you or someone you know has a space they would like to rent and/or exchange for garden work, we would love to hear from you. An old outbuilding, barn, garage apartment... We are not too particular as we've enjoyed living in our old barn on the farm immensely. We have lived in and love East Nashville but are open to other parts of the city as well.
Thank you so much, and be well! -Evan and Laura
Hello Dear Shareholders,
Our season-long internship with the wonderful Smith family is coming to a close. We leave with calloused hands, grateful hearts, bellies full of delicious veggies, and minds brimming with new knowledge of fertile land and healthy animals. Although we are sad to leave our beautiful home, we look forward to putting our skills to use back in Music City, USA.
We are reaching out to the good people of the Bugtussle Farm Community as we search for a new home in the city. We would love to find a place where we could garden and live in a healthy, simple way. If you or someone you know has a space they would like to rent and/or exchange for garden work, we would love to hear from you. An old outbuilding, barn, garage apartment... We are not too particular as we've enjoyed living in our old barn on the farm immensely. We have lived in and love East Nashville but are open to other parts of the city as well.
Thank you so much, and be well! -Evan and Laura
Sunday, November 15, 2009
2009 Fall Season, Week Six
November 14, 2009
This week's harvest:
Kale
Carrots
Sweet potatoes
Garlic & Onions
Salad turnips with turnip greens
Butternut squash
Daikon radishes -- free choice
This week's farm news:
We finally had some dry sunny weather this week. We were able to get next year's garlic crop planted & mulched, thank goodness. It is fairly late in the season so we were a bit worried that it might not get done! Plus this is Evan & Laura's last week on the farm & we really needed to utilize their help for the big garlic planting project. Now it's all done & we can check it off the "to do" list! So, yes, Evan & Laura will be departing from Bugtussle in just a few more days. It will be hard to see them go as they have been wonderful helpers & have become good friends as well. We wish them all the best on their next journey & thank them loads to all of their help throughout the season!
Next Saturday is the final Fall Season delivery. Please bring your basket back to us as well as a bag to tote your veggies home in.
We are planning to bring vegetables to Nashville a few more times in December. Watch for emails announcing dates & times -- then you can let us know if you're interested!
[I will be posting emails from the farm here, in case you're not on the Bugtussle mailing list, or in case something goes amiss with email communication.]
This week's harvest:
Kale
Carrots
Sweet potatoes
Garlic & Onions
Salad turnips with turnip greens
Butternut squash
Daikon radishes -- free choice
This week's farm news:
We finally had some dry sunny weather this week. We were able to get next year's garlic crop planted & mulched, thank goodness. It is fairly late in the season so we were a bit worried that it might not get done! Plus this is Evan & Laura's last week on the farm & we really needed to utilize their help for the big garlic planting project. Now it's all done & we can check it off the "to do" list! So, yes, Evan & Laura will be departing from Bugtussle in just a few more days. It will be hard to see them go as they have been wonderful helpers & have become good friends as well. We wish them all the best on their next journey & thank them loads to all of their help throughout the season!
Next Saturday is the final Fall Season delivery. Please bring your basket back to us as well as a bag to tote your veggies home in.
We are planning to bring vegetables to Nashville a few more times in December. Watch for emails announcing dates & times -- then you can let us know if you're interested!
[I will be posting emails from the farm here, in case you're not on the Bugtussle mailing list, or in case something goes amiss with email communication.]
2009 Fall Season, Week Five
November 7, 2009
This week's harvest:
Rutabagas
Sweet potatoes
Butternut squash
Garlic & Onions
Carrots
Daikon radish
Kale
Choice between: Kohlrabi, Arugula, Red mustard, Green cabbage, Mizuna, Turnip greens, and Red cabbage
This week's farm news:
The turkeys had a big adventure this week. Maybe they're sensing their impending fate, maybe it was the full moon, I don't know, but something shifted in their world & they took off! On Sunday morning Evan & Laura went to do chores & came rapping on our door with the report "The turkeys are gone!" They had flown from a fenced garden where we had been keeping them. So Eric, Ira, Laura & Evan took off on a big hike to find them. After a few hours, they had basically given up & moved on to some garden work when Evan thought he heard them off in the distance. They found them over in the neighbor's pasture. They managed to walk the turkeys along a fence & into an old shed with the plan of going back to get them after dark. When evening came, Eric, Evan & Ira went to load the turkeys into the van to bring them back to the farm. When they got to the shed they realized that 6 of the turkeys had managed to fly through a hole in the shed's roof to find more suitable roosting about 40 feet up in a walnut tree overhead. So with head lamps & the full moon's light, they had to shimmy up trees to round them up. Exhausting & stressful for the big boys but from 5-year-old Ira's perspective -- "This is GREAT!!!" Somehow Eric managed to drive the thrashing turkeys (Evan & Ira in the safety of Evan's car) back to our farm. There was a big turkey on the dashboard right in front of his face, a big tom pressing hard against his legs, & warm turkey droppings seeping through his pant legs... Now we've put them into a portable shed to move around on the pasture for their final days.
This week's harvest:
Rutabagas
Sweet potatoes
Butternut squash
Garlic & Onions
Carrots
Daikon radish
Kale
Choice between: Kohlrabi, Arugula, Red mustard, Green cabbage, Mizuna, Turnip greens, and Red cabbage
This week's farm news:
The turkeys had a big adventure this week. Maybe they're sensing their impending fate, maybe it was the full moon, I don't know, but something shifted in their world & they took off! On Sunday morning Evan & Laura went to do chores & came rapping on our door with the report "The turkeys are gone!" They had flown from a fenced garden where we had been keeping them. So Eric, Ira, Laura & Evan took off on a big hike to find them. After a few hours, they had basically given up & moved on to some garden work when Evan thought he heard them off in the distance. They found them over in the neighbor's pasture. They managed to walk the turkeys along a fence & into an old shed with the plan of going back to get them after dark. When evening came, Eric, Evan & Ira went to load the turkeys into the van to bring them back to the farm. When they got to the shed they realized that 6 of the turkeys had managed to fly through a hole in the shed's roof to find more suitable roosting about 40 feet up in a walnut tree overhead. So with head lamps & the full moon's light, they had to shimmy up trees to round them up. Exhausting & stressful for the big boys but from 5-year-old Ira's perspective -- "This is GREAT!!!" Somehow Eric managed to drive the thrashing turkeys (Evan & Ira in the safety of Evan's car) back to our farm. There was a big turkey on the dashboard right in front of his face, a big tom pressing hard against his legs, & warm turkey droppings seeping through his pant legs... Now we've put them into a portable shed to move around on the pasture for their final days.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
2009 Fall Season, Week Four
October 31, 2009
This week's harvest:
Kale
Turnip greens
Butternut squash
Sweet potatoes
Red potatoes
Carrots
Daikon radish
Garlic
Onions
This week's farm news:
This week has flown past! It's already been one week ago that we welcomed our new baby, Olivia Fern, to the Bugtussle Farm scene. She is doing great & Mama is recovering nicely. On Friday it was warm, albeit rather windy, & the autumn leaves were so beautiful that we took Olivia on her first farm walk. She mostly slept but it seemed so necessary to get some fresh air before the next round of rain sets in!
In the midst of adjusting to our new family dynamic, Eri has been diligently digging the very muddy sweet potato crop -- of course with Evan & Laura's devoted help. They were all really looking forward to the completion of the task because it's been dragging out for so long due to all the rain we've been getting! On Friday, with the forecast of more rain on the way, the weary crew buckled down, embraced the mud, & got the job done! Yeah! Now there is definitely enough sweet potatoes to get us all through the winter! The next tasks on the to do list are getting next year's garlic crop planted, pulling the plastic over the high tunnel & setting all of our transplants into it. Then we'll have fresh greens to accompany our meals of sweet potatoes throughout the winter ... sounds like a delicious dream to me!
This week's harvest:
Kale
Turnip greens
Butternut squash
Sweet potatoes
Red potatoes
Carrots
Daikon radish
Garlic
Onions
This week's farm news:
This week has flown past! It's already been one week ago that we welcomed our new baby, Olivia Fern, to the Bugtussle Farm scene. She is doing great & Mama is recovering nicely. On Friday it was warm, albeit rather windy, & the autumn leaves were so beautiful that we took Olivia on her first farm walk. She mostly slept but it seemed so necessary to get some fresh air before the next round of rain sets in!
In the midst of adjusting to our new family dynamic, Eri has been diligently digging the very muddy sweet potato crop -- of course with Evan & Laura's devoted help. They were all really looking forward to the completion of the task because it's been dragging out for so long due to all the rain we've been getting! On Friday, with the forecast of more rain on the way, the weary crew buckled down, embraced the mud, & got the job done! Yeah! Now there is definitely enough sweet potatoes to get us all through the winter! The next tasks on the to do list are getting next year's garlic crop planted, pulling the plastic over the high tunnel & setting all of our transplants into it. Then we'll have fresh greens to accompany our meals of sweet potatoes throughout the winter ... sounds like a delicious dream to me!
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